Roadkill from around the globe.
Surely other vultures…This Black Vulture maybe was snacking on remains too close to the road.
TIDBIT - The Black Vulture is a carrion feeder that will bully a turkey vulture away from a carcass and will occasionally kill smaller live prey.
This groundhog was found lying face down on a road in the Sourland Mountains region of New Jersey.
Tidbit: Groundhogs are a pest species that will eat through building foundations. They are vicious if cornered. Unless they are dead. Then not so vicious.
Submitted by: Molly
Why did the turkey cross the county road you ask? We’ll never know.
TIDBIT: In the 1930s it is reported the the numbers of wild turkeys were dwindling due to overhunting, disease and forest clearing.
Rocky Raccoon, mercilessly run over, undoubtedly by someone that didn’t have enough time to slow down.
Location: Johnston County, NC
TIDBIT: In many languages, the raccoon is named for its characteristic dousing behavior in conjunction with that language’s term for bear, for example Waschbär in German, orsetto lavatore in Italian and araiguma (アライグマ) in Japanese. In French and Portuguese (in Portugal), the washing behavior is combined with these languages’ term for rat, yielding, respectively, raton laveur and ratão-lavadeiro.
submitted by: john.rides